Comments on: Guardian 23,976 – Guess the Setter?

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BenIngton — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:34:25 +0000

With Paul, more than any other regular Guardian setter, I find I take time to adjust my thinking to his. Very often I go many minutes getting few, if any, solutions until I get into a ‘Paul’ mode of thinking and the answers finally come. Sometimes the clues are questionable (like 14d and 18d) but this more often than not made up for by excellent clues (like 4a, 3d, 16d).

One minor quibble, can ‘EC’ mean European nations in these days of the EU?

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loonapick — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:29:00 +0000

Linxit, yes you are right – didn’t think of AREA=”field”. D’oh!

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linxit — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:49:25 +0000

23D – I’d say ultimately refers to the last letter of sportsmeN going inside AREA=field, with the whole clue &lit.

They’ve got the setter’s name up online now, by the way. I also guessed it was Paul from 27ac, but already suspected that anyway.